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RE: Is religion almost finished?
June 6, 2014 at 3:43 pm
(June 6, 2014 at 3:41 pm)Godschild Wrote: Christianity is on the decline just as the scriptures predict it would close to the end times. It will never die out, we are here to stay, you'll have to learn to deal with that.
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Wait...didn't they writers of those prophesies think THEY were in the "end times"?
Anyway, I always thought this argument was hilarious.
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RE: Is religion almost finished?
June 6, 2014 at 3:55 pm
Religious movements, organisations and belief systems are constantly changing, adapting and evolving with the times.
They've like viruses that plague the brain, a cancer unto the mind. As soon as people build up an immunity to their bullshit... *bang* they mutate into something newer, their messages morph into something more appealing, and they've got the general populous subscribing to their dogma all over again.
The cycle repeats. We'll never be completely free of them.
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RE: Is religion almost finished?
June 6, 2014 at 3:55 pm
(June 5, 2014 at 9:04 pm)Artur Axmann Wrote: (June 5, 2014 at 6:47 pm)vodkafan Wrote: Even in Victorian times, Christianity was judged by evangalists to have failed. They could not get the urban working class to attend church en masse.
Islam has been in the doldrums for a couple of hundred years. Every country that has tried to base it's laws and politics on Islam is a failure.
That's why the fundies all over the world are rising up. Because they are afraid.
I think these next few years will be the last gasp for religion. This century will be about all the resources running out. When the oil runs out and we suddenly realise it's too late to find ways to share wealth and feed everybody nobody will give a shit about the bible thumper or the imam shouting in the corner. That's my opinion.
too many inaccuracies.
The Brits were always scoffers but then again during the Victorian Era ,missionaries were riding high everywhere else.
Could be what made the Brits look outside their island.
In the usa the fundies were also doing well.
More church going Christians in China than in Europe.
You can't win athie .. and at this point, he got raptured apparently.
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R: RE: Is religion almost finished?
June 6, 2014 at 6:19 pm
(June 6, 2014 at 3:41 pm)Godschild Wrote: Christianity is on the decline just as the scriptures predict it would close to the end times. It will never die out, we are here to stay, you'll have to learn to deal with that.
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The "end-times" wild card is always the easiest to pick, isn't it?
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Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.
Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder.
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RE: Is religion almost finished?
June 6, 2014 at 6:23 pm
(June 6, 2014 at 3:41 pm)Godschild Wrote: Christianity is on the decline just as the scriptures predict it would close to the end times. It will never die out, we are here to stay, you'll have to learn to deal with that.
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Scripture predicted Christianity would decline, lol. Well duh, it's archaic.
And yes, it will die out someday, sorry.
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RE: Is religion almost finished?
June 6, 2014 at 6:35 pm
(June 6, 2014 at 3:41 pm)Godschild Wrote: Christianity is on the decline just as the scriptures predict it would close to the end times. It will never die out, we are here to stay, you'll have to learn to deal with that.
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See? The Bible has real prophecy in it! It predicted its own obsolescence! Praise Jesus!
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RE: Is religion almost finished?
June 9, 2014 at 7:27 am
I heard or read somewhere that religion will be around until humans conquer death. It has to do with fear of the unknown. I can't remember whom or where unfortunately.
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RE: Is religion almost finished?
June 9, 2014 at 10:47 am
(June 6, 2014 at 3:55 pm)Thackerie Wrote: (June 5, 2014 at 9:04 pm)Artur Axmann Wrote: You can't win athie .. and at this point, he got raptured apparently.
Amazingly, when his clothes fell to the ground as he was raptured, it somehow managed to type ".." and hit the Post Reply button, too!
It's like all those partially typed posts that are somehow submitted when people mention Candle Jack. I've never underst
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RE: Is religion almost finished?
June 9, 2014 at 10:50 am
(This post was last modified: June 9, 2014 at 10:58 am by Mudhammam.)
No, religion is not almost finished because the human species is generally speaking very credulous. The religious pawn will continue, into the foreseeable future, to smell their own farts and think God is somehow involved in spite of good reasons to the contrary...as they do now.
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RE: Is religion almost finished?
June 13, 2014 at 8:56 am
One look at our govern shows us that we are a long way awayz from no more stupid ideas.
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